What Are Some Good Reference Books You Use For History And Science For Your Kids?
Nov.10, 2009 in
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I am planning our lessons plans for next school year and I am wondering what books any homeschooling families use for their kids. I have two fifth graders, one third grader, and a preschooler. I am more concerned with the fifth graders, because I am using my old plans for the younger ones. I bought the Kingfishers, Encyclopdia of History, but wondering if anyone knows another good one I could get. What about Science? Any web sites would be greatly appreciated too!!!! I will look at all answers, so please help out a fellow homeschooling mom!
November 10th, 2009 at 9:48 am
The Department of Natural Resources has a lot of good earth science material for free. I went to a teacher supply store and found some great stuff but this was in the old days. My baby is a Marine. We did a lot of work with Science magazines. They had to read something and give me a short essay, who what when where and how. I found with that box of magazines they read more than what they used but they learned quite a bit. Beware of the four foot tall scientist. My son learned to create fire with a watch. Good times, have fun.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:40 am
The Dorling-Kindersley Encyclopedia books are excellent, especially the Science encyclopedia.
November 10th, 2009 at 10:58 am
We use the Kingfisher book, as well. We also have the Usborne Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History (I think that’s the right name) and the Usborne Internet-Linked Science Encyclopedia. Both are available from Amazon in hardcover for about $25. I love the fact that they have internet links available, so we’re not limited to just the books. Usborne keeps up with the links to make sure they’re current. You just log onto their site and link from there.
This is the first year I’ll be using Sonlight for Science and BiblioPlan for History. My boys are 1st and 6th, so keeping them together is going to be challenging!
November 10th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
If you want to home shool your children you will learn as well! So teach them everything that apply’s to you and them.
November 10th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Usborne books! My mom used to use Usborne World History books… I devoured them! We also went to the library and checked out the limit on all the subjects we were studying.
For science? Try the Brown Paper Bag books. They’re a great series. They have stuff for math, science, and geography, they’re really fun to read (I hated math and science and I still got caught reading those books sometimes)
November 10th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/http://sparknotes.com
Literature
Shakespeare
Poetry
History
Psychology
Economics
Math http://www.webmath.com/
Film
Drama
Writing
Philosophy
Chemistry
Biology
Physics
No fear Shakespear.
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
The Tempest
More…
Some more sites to keep you busy.http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts..…
A site about facts of countries.http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/fact… http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_7615…
edhelper.com
themailbox.comhttp://school.discovery.com/
refdesk.com
I think all of these sites will be of use to you, I’m giving you some on Shakespeare just in case you need them.http://www.absoluteshakespeare.com/trivi…http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes…
there’s more on this page– look in the right column.. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/wil…http://www.allgreatquotes.com/shakespear…http://quotations.about.com/od/shakespea…
check these sites—
there are all pretty good http://www.monologuearchive.com/
November 10th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I know a grate range of History books that are fun and inspiring for younger kids… especially boys… That the ‘Horrible Historys’ range. I hope this hhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search…